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Cloud Native Architectures

You're reading from   Cloud Native Architectures Design high-availability and cost-effective applications for the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280540
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tom Laszewski Tom Laszewski
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Kamal Arora Kamal Arora
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Piyum Zonooz Piyum Zonooz
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Erik Farr Erik Farr
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Preface 1. Introducing Cloud Native Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. The Cloud Adoption Journey 3. Cloud Native Application Design 4. How to Choose Technology Stacks 5. Scalable and Available 6. Secure and Reliable 7. Optimizing Cost 8. Cloud Native Operations 9. Amazon Web Services 10. Microsoft Azure 11. Google Cloud Platform 12. What's Next? Cloud Native Application Architecture Trends 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Before the cloud


As always, it's best to start with a bit of perspective. Whether you've begun reshaping your IT environment and organization to be cloud native, or are yet to embark on the journey, you need to understand how the majority of organizations are organized to design, build, and run current IT systems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As an example, let's consider an insurance company that offers several products to its customer base (home, life, and auto insurance). Internally, it has several teams, which help support its products: policy developers, field sales teams, statisticians, HR, programmers, marketing, actuaries, and so on. Each of these teams consumes the services of the IT team (whether it's servers for emails, clusters to run statistical models, databases to store client information, or websites to be a storefront for the public).

The IT team is in turn separated into several groups based on domain competencies. Network, security, database, and ops are typical teams found in these outdated organization...

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